Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks

Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by tssva on Sunday September 11, 2022 @09:33AM (#32799488)

At the time I worked for an ISP which was the primary ISP for most of the major media companies and for the largest consumer internet provider. It was a crazy day trying to keep things flowing under the demand. A lot of traffic engineering and rapidly bringing up additional bandwidth.

All this was done without access to the internet ourselves because early in the day my employer decided to pull the plug on our access. When they pulled the plug many employees went to the cafeteria to watch the TVs there. The company sent security guards to turn off the TVs and confiscate the remotes.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by victor9000 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:04PM (#32802319)

What was the reasoning? Did they not want people to be aware of the news? I'm imagining an exec glued to their TV thinking he has to keep his employees from doing the same thing.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by Doxin on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:47AM (#32807857)

Presumably they needed people to keep working, instead of being glued to the news. Harsh but in the case of an ISP makes some sense.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by tssva on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:01AM (#32809504)

The thought process was to keep people working. The reality was that about 40 out of hundreds of employees there were involved in keeping things flowing that day. The ISP was located in Northern Virginia near Dulles airport where the flight which crashed into the Pentagon took off from and a large percentage there knew someone that worked at the Pentagon including in many cases family members.

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